The Project Coordinator will provide administrative and technical support for Project Managers, assist in project meetings, manage project schedules, and recommend revisions for deliverables.
Project Coordinator
What We’re Looking For:
Michael Baker International is seeking a Project Coordinator to join their San Diego, California team. Under limited supervision, the Project Coordinator will provide support services primarily to the San Diego and Carlsbad offices.
Duties include, but are not limited to the following:
What You’ll Do:
- Provide administrative and technical support for Project Managers and Executive staff primarily in San Diego
- Confer with production and engineering personnel and review blueprints, sketches, drawings, specifications, reports, and other materials to become familiar with technologies, subject matter, and production methods
- Arrange for formatting, reproduction, and distribution of deliverables
- Review deliverables to recommend revisions or changes in format, content, and methods of reproduction and binding
- Schedule and participate in external project meetings and assist with preparation of meeting minutes, tracking action items, and client requests (this would include company paid travel to project meetings mostly in California, Arizona and Nevada)
- Prepare project schedules based on review of project scope documents and coordination with key stakeholders
- Review and process post-award contract documents to facilitate initial accounting setup and additional work requests
- Confer with internal clients to determine the clearest and most logical way to present information for greatest audience comprehension
- Generate innovative ideas for content and workflow solutions
- Adhere to time estimates and sufficiently balance efficiency with quality of work
- Manage workload independently and prioritize multiple project assignments simultaneously
- Ability to quickly learn additional software (e.g., MS Project, Bluebeam Revu, etc.)
- Other duties and special projects, as assigned
What You Need to Succeed:
- Must possess excellent communication skills
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
- Outgoing, organized, proactive and assertive
- Excellent English language skills, written and verbal, are essential to success in this role
- Strong computer skills
- Intermediate to expert knowledge of Microsoft 365 products including Teams, Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, and PowerPoint
- Basic knowledge of Bluebeam and Adobe Acrobat
- Prior experience within the Architecture/Engineering/Construction or Planning and Environmental industries is preferable
- Prior experience with federal contracts is preferrable.
- Prior experience in the construction or architectural/engineering industry is preferrable.
- Must be located in San Diego with the expectation to be in-person at least 2x a week.
Compensation:
The approximate compensation range for this position is $57,907.20 - $85,134.40 per year. This compensation range is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation is dependent upon factors such as education, qualifications, experience, skillset, and physical work location.
Why Choose Us:
- Medical, dental, vision insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Life, AD&D, short-term, and long-term disability
- Professional and personal development
- Generous paid time off
- Commuter and wellness benefits
Based in Pittsburgh and with over 100 offices nationwide, we partner with clients on everything from roads, bridges, tunnels, mass transit, and airports, to water treatment plants, arctic oil pipelines, environmental restoration and specialized overseas construction. We serve as a trusted adviser to the communities we serve, making them safer, more accessible, more sustainable and more prosperous.
We provide visionary leadership in facilitating transformational change for our clients. Our work delivers differentiating innovations and dedicated experts who challenge the status quo and share a world of diverse experience and an impassioned entrepreneurial spirit. We deliver quality of life.
We Make a Difference.
Michael Baker International is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Michael Baker International provides equal employment opportunity for all persons, in all facets of employment. Michael Baker International maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply for any open position for which they feel they are qualified and all will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, familial status, pregnancy or childbirth, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, status with regard to public assistance, or membership or activity in a local human rights commission, or any other legally protected status.
EEO is the Law. Applicants to and employees of Michael Baker International are protected under Federal law from discrimination.
*It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
*There is no current application deadline. Michael Baker will continue to accept applications on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or no longer needed.
Top Skills
Adobe Acrobat
Bluebeam Revu
Microsoft 365
Ms Project
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